Turkey, Greece reel from strong quake

IZMIR/ISTANBUL－Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday raised to 58 the death toll in Izmir, the country's third-largest city, in an earthquake, as rescuers pulled more bodies from toppled buildings. Two teenagers were also killed on the Greek island of Samos and at least 19 others were injured.

The earthquake struck in the Aegean Sea between the Turkish coast and the Greek island of Samos on Friday, and in addition to the deaths injured more than 900 people amid collapsed buildings and flooding, officials said.

The earthquake was centered in the Aegean northeast of Samos, and the United States Geological Survey rated it at 7.0, while Istanbul's Kandilli Institute put it at 6.9 and Turkey's Disaster and Emergency Management Presidency, or AFAD, said it measured 6.6.